Installing Using Imaging

Deep Freeze has been designed to work with all major imaging and desktop management software. Use either an Attended Install or the Silent Install to install Deep Freeze on a master image.

Deep Freeze must be prepared for deployment before finalizing a master image. To prepare the master image for deployment complete the following steps:

1.	Restart the computer into a Thawed state.

2.	Launch Deep Freeze using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+F6. Alternatively, press SHIFT and double-click the Deep Freeze icon in the System Tray.

3.	Enter the password and click OK.

4.	Click Set Clone Flag in the Boot Control tab.

5.	The message The flag has been set successfully. Do you want to reboot your computer now? is displayed. Click Yes to reboot the computer immediately. Click No to reboot the computer later.

 

The Set Clone Flag command is important during imaging since it boots the computers into a Thawed state if Deep Freeze is unable to read its configuration file after the image is successfully installed. If the Clone Flag is not set, and if Deep Freeze is unable to read its configuration file, all drives are Frozen after the image is successfully installed.

If you are using Sysprep, make sure you set the Clone Flag after preparing the system for imaging and just before starting Sysprep.

After imaging, the computers require an additional restart for Deep Freeze to correctly detect the changes in disk configuration. If the computers are imaged in an unattended mode, steps should be taken to ensure the computers are restarted to allow the configuration to update.

To return to the Frozen state after imaging is complete, set Deep Freeze to Boot Thawed on next n number of restarts (in the master image) so that after n number of restarts, the computer is automatically Frozen. Alternatively, use Deep Freeze Command Line Control to Freeze selected computers.